On Monday 07 April 2008 16:55:42 Brian McKee wrote: > On 7-Apr-08, at 9:25 AM, David Baron wrote: > > I am reposting since I have received no advice and have not found a > > solution: > > ---------------------------- > > After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with > > a somewhat > > faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and > > 575). > > > > Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but > > the DMA on > > the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for > > the IDEs > > are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm > > will not > > allow -d1 either. > > Just a shot in the dark - but is it a good 80 pin cable? I *think* > a 40 pin cable might cause some of those symptoms and I wondered if > the process of swapping things around changed the cable as well.... > > FWIW, > Brian
>I will check this out. In fact, at the bootup when it detects the IDE devices, >if finds them just fine but then complains "no 80-pin cable installed"!! >The thing played just fine on the old MB with the current cables, however. Did >things change sometime a while back (this is old hardware)? OK, I have 80 pin cables now, bootup no longer complains. Still no DMA. What now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
